Forwarding SMS to email
This functionality allows users to conveniently access their SMS messages through their email clients or receive SMS notifications directly in their email inboxes.
- Forwarding SMS to email helps consolidate all your communications in one place.
- You can receive and read text messages on any device with email capabilities.
- Email services typically offer robust backup and archiving features, allowing you to store and search through your messages over an extended period.
Manually forwarding SMS to emails
The smartphone acts as the intermediary between the SMS message and the email system, utilizing the capabilities of the cellular network and internet connectivity to forward the SMS as an email to the recipient's designated email address.
How to forward text messages from iPhones to emails?
- Open the messaging app and the conversation you want to forward
- Do a long press on the message to get more options
- Tap more and select forward
- Enter the email address in the To field
- Tap on send
How to forward text messages from Android to emails?
- Choose the SMS that you want to forward
- Tap and hold the text message till you have more options
Note: This depends on the type of device that you have. For some devices, you may need to tap on the 3 little dots.
- Choose forward and enter the recipient's email address
- Tap on send
Not every Android phone will have this feature. On some smartphones, you may need to enable premium SMS numbers in the settings.
When you send an SMS to an email, it will lose all of its formatting depending on your carrier.
This is the most common and manual way to send text messages to emails. However, it is time consuming especially if you need to forward many SMS messages quickly.
How to automatically forward SMS to your email?
To create an auto-forwarding process, you can use third-party apps such as ForwardSMS or a phone automation app such as Zapier or IFTTT.
Forward text messages to emails automatically using third-party apps
iOS (iPhone) devices
Forward SMS is an application available on App store that can automatically send text messages to your emails.